James Cohen & Prairie Roots Rockers Get Through These Long Nights In New Video
James Cohen and the Prairie Roots Rockers are exactly who they say they are. And the Winnipeg outfit make that crystal-clear on the new video for their beloved track...
Jesse Cook Celebrates A 25-Year Tempest With New Single & Video
Jesse Cook knows a thing or two about unexpected turns in the road — his whole storied career is based on one.
More recently, the internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer and...
Next Week in Music | July 6-12 • The Short List: 5 Releases You...
Roots, rap and Rufus: This week's top musical offerings are brought to you by the letter R. Except for the 400-plus other releases that aren't. But I'm not talking...
Next Week in Music | July 6-12 • The Long List: 420 Releases On...
As Isaac Newton said: For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction. And since there were only 150 new titles to wade through this week, the pendulum...
Next Week in Music | July 6-12 • New Books
A jazz icon, a country songwriter, a Canadian journeyman, an acid-house flashback and more — there aren't a lot of new music books arriving this week, but there is...
Next Week in Music | July 6-12 • On TV
The late-night talk shows are on hiatus again this week, so your musical choices are severely limited. On the plus side, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert posted a...
The Winter Passing | New Ways of Living
Indie-emo pop-rock bands are plentiful. Indie-emo pop-rock bands that hail from Ireland but sound like they're from New Jersey or Philadelphia — and are fronted by a ragged-throated brother...
The Werps | Shades of Blue
Garage-rock fanatics and obscure 45 collectors might know The Werps from their flaming, punctuation-challenged late-’60s nugget Loves A Fire. And they might have wondered if the long-lost New Jersey...
Roots Magic | Take Root Among the Stars
Between the cover art and the title, you might quite reasonably think you've stumbled upon an album from some sort of way cool Afro-futurist outfit. Nope. Turns out Roots...
Poltergeist | Feather of Truth
Do ghosts age? Because Poltergeist sure don't. On their second album since reuniting in 2013, the veteran Swedish thrashmasters continue to dish out classic speed-demon metal straight from their...
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience | To Know Without Knowing
Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian vibraphonist who pioneered Ethio-jazz more than half a century ago, has been sampled by legions of rappers and producers in the decades since, and...
Mountain Time | Music for Looking Animals
Chris Simpson used to be known as Zookeeper. Now the Austin singer-songwriter calls himself Mountain Time. What's the difference? Well, he still specializes in atmospheric alt-Americana and folk-rock. He...
Maryann Cotton | Hallelujah
I love Alice Cooper as much as the next guy. Unless the next guy is Maryann Cotton. And yes, Maryann is a guy. Specifically, a Danish singer whose entire...
L.M.I. | Excess Subconscious
Hardcore toner-punk? Believe it or not, that's how these Pennsylvania weirdoes describe their hybrid sound. And it's a pretty fair interpretation of their double-barrelled approach: One minute they're all...
The Jerry Granelli Trio | Plays Vince Guaraldi and Mose Allison
Along with their status a trailblazing cool-jazz pianists, hipster icon Mose Allison and Peanuts soundtracker Vince Guaraldi have one other thing in common — drummer Jerry Granelli, who played...
